tically-organized parishes, with representation in the legislature),
and attracting foreigners thereto, prior to the coming of settlers from
the North.

The settlement of Georgia, in 1732, completed the southern line of
colonization toward the Piedmont. Among the objects of the colony, as
specified in the charters, were the relief of the poor and the
protection of the frontiers. To guard against the tendency to engross
the lands in great estates, already so clearly revealed in the older
colonies, the Georgia trustees provided that the grants of fifty acres
should not be alienated or divided, but should pass to the male heirs
and revert to the trustees in case heirs were lacking. No grant greater
than five hundred acres was permitted, and even this was made
conditionally upon the holder settling ten colonists. However, under
local conditions and the competition and example of neighboring
colonies, this attempt to restrict land tenure in the interest of
democracy broke down by 1750, and Georgia's land system became not
unlike that of the other Southern colonies.[97:2]

In 1734, Salzburgers had been located above Savannah, and within seven
years some twelve hundred German Protestants were dwelling on the
Georgia frontier; while a settlement of Scotch Highlanders at Darien,
near the mouth of the Altamaha, protected the southern frontier. At
Augusta, an Indian trading fort (1735), whence the dealers in peltry
visited the Cherokee, completed the familiar picture of frontier
advance.[98:1]

We have now hastily surveyed the movement of the frontier of settlement
westward from the lowlands, in the later years of the seventeenth and
early part of the eighteenth century. There is much that is common in
the whole line of advance. The original settlers engross the desirable
lands of the older area. Indented servants and new-comers pass to the
frontier seeking a place to locate their headrights, or plant new towns.
Adventurous and speculative wealthy planters acquire large holdings in
the new areas, and bring over settlers to satisfy the requirements of
seating and cultivating their extensive grants, thus building up a
yeomanry of small landholders side by side with the holders of large
estates. The most far-sighted of the new-comers follow the example of
the planters, and petition for increasing extensive grants. Meanwhile,
pioneers like Abraham Wood, himself once an indented servant, and
gentlemen like Col. William Byrd--prosecu